“Monday Monday, can’t trust that day. Monday Monday sometimes it just turns out that way.” — Mamas and the Papas
Donald Trump is not having a good day. He didn’t like yesterday’s news. He was very cranky after he had to cancel the rally in North Carolina, and refund the money, you believe that? and all because of Letitia? but now Tuesday morning is off to an even worse start. His enemies at the New York Times published a Monday poll he found objectionable. And the headline, OMG the headline, “Half Of G.O.P. Voters Ready To Leave Trump Behind, Poll Shows.” This is a four-ketchup-bottle tantrum, this one. The cleaning ladies at Mar-a-Lago are putting in for overtime, combat pay, too, make no mistake.
Looks like Trump has read the paper today
Notable that many Trump allies had no problem gleefully pushing the NYT’s Dem/Biden poll from yesterday… https://t.co/h9yEyKQS1y pic.twitter.com/0Lk00tn3vB
— Will Steakin (@wsteaks) July 12, 2022
I wanted to make sure you got the screaming caps at the end, that’s key here. New York Times:
As Donald J. Trump weighs whether to open an unusually early White House campaign, a New York Times/Siena College poll shows that his post-presidential quest to consolidate his support within the Republican Party has instead left him weakened, with nearly half the party’s primary voters seeking someone different for president in 2024 and a significant number vowing to abandon him if he wins the nomination.
By focusing on political payback inside his party instead of tending to wounds opened by his alarming attempts to cling to power after his 2020 defeat, Mr. Trump appears to have only deepened fault lines among Republicans during his yearlong revenge tour. A clear majority of primary voters under 35 years old, 64 percent, as well as 65 percent of those with at least a college degree — a leading indicator of political preferences inside the donor class — told pollsters they would vote against Mr. Trump in a presidential primary.
Mr. Trump’s conduct on Jan. 6, 2021, appears to have contributed to the decline in his standing, including among a small but important segment of Republicans who could form the base of his opposition in a potential primary contest. While 75 percent of primary voters said Mr. Trump was “just exercising his right to contest the election,” nearly one in five said he “went so far that he threatened American democracy.”
That’s bad enough, but read this.
Should Mr. DeSantis and Mr. Trump face off in a primary, the poll suggested that support from Fox News could prove crucial: Mr. Trump held a 62 percent to 26 percent advantage over Mr. DeSantis among Fox News viewers, while the gap between the two Floridians was 16 points closer among Republicans who mainly receive their news from another source.
DeSantis, the guy that he made, is going to take over his job and Fox News, the network that he made, is going to help him? Better lay in a case of ketchup. And paper plates.
And it gets worse. You know the drill.
A growing anyone-but-Trump vote inside the party contributed to Mr. Trump’s deficit, with 16 percent of Republicans saying that if he were the nominee they would support Mr. Biden, would back a third-party candidate, wouldn’t vote at all or remained unsure what they would do. That compared to 8 percent of Democrats who said they would similarly abandon Mr. Biden in a matchup with Mr. Trump.
And here are the “made up quotes.” I mean, you know they’ve got to be fake, right, because nobody could ever fall out of love with Trump, right? Right?
Kenneth Abreu, a 62-year-old pharmaceutical executive from Pennsylvania, said he had voted Republican for three decades but would support Mr. Biden instead of voting again for Mr. Trump.
“Unlike all these other people who believe every word he says, I’m done,” Mr. Abreu said. “All the garbage he’s been talking about, the lies, Jan. 6, the whole thing — I just lost all respect for him.” […]
Richard Bechtol, a 31-year-old Republican voter in Columbus, Ohio, said he would back either Mr. DeSantis or Senator Ted Cruz of Texas over the former president. Mr. Bechtol was disturbed by Mr. Trump’s behavior that led to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
“I hope he doesn’t run at all,” Mr. Bechtol said of the former president.
In all fairness to the Times there are favorable, Trump supporting quotes in this piece. The same man who doesn’t want Trump to run at all says that if he did win a GOP primary that he would vote for him over Biden. And there are quotes from Trump lovers. But that’s not enough for Trump. Like the title of Mary Trump’s book, “Too Much and Never Enough” Trump has to have it all. All the love, all the support, unanimous, undiluted, unequivocal and all of the time. He’s not even remotely grounded in the real world, let alone the realities of politics.
Here are some details from the poll that so incensed Trump.
Respondents were asked who is to blame for the January 6 attack (which does not call it an insurrection). More than one choice was allowed:
The people who broke into the U.S. Capitol: 81%
Social media companies: 63%
Donald Trump: 59%
News media: 57%
Republicans in Congress: 52%
Local law enforcement: 40%
State legislators: 38%
State elections officials: 37%
Democrats in Congress: 36%
Defense Department: 33%
Mike Pence: 29%
President Joe Biden: 29%
Well, this jump started Tuesday morning. And in less than two hours we will be hearing from the January 6 Committee.
You know it’s a new day when the whiny tit starts screaming on social media. What a f*cking crybaby former guy is.
A cigarette & blindfold are in order. Fact.